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Yeah!! My 3rd FWA.
Now I have my name listed on FWA’s profile!

1st FWA: Sony Recyou (Non-grid)
2nd FWA: Panasonic Wave (Non-grid)
3rd FWA: Adhemas Batista website

Check it out there!

Released couple weeks ago, I programmed the portfolio website for Adhemas Batista.
He is a Brazilian illustrator based in Los Angeles – US.

I went today for Adobe Back from MAX conference here in London. It’s like a mashup of what they showed at Adobe MAX LA.

Well, here is the note I took, and I’m really disapointed about Flash app in iPhone…

Flash app on iPhone:
- It’s a “static” app. Only SWFs packed in the app can be loaded. No SWFs from outside can be loaded;
- You can load images, sound, text from outside;
- No H.264, RTMPT, PixelBender…;
- No access to Mic / Camera;
- No access to Native API like Maps;
- The packed file size is at least 2.7mb because they have to bundle all the functionalities because the compiler doesn’t know what is being used or not;

Flash Embed in HTML
- You can assign a priority to swfs during embed, so in a page with 2 banners and a main swf, can assign main swf a higher priority for performance;

Flash Catalyst
- easy integration of Photoshop/Illustrator design with Flash, using Catalyst.
- good for prototyping and IAs
- skinning components easy
- you can create a Flex Project directly from Catalyst, but the Flex Project can’t be loaded in Catalyst
- you can create just a Library Project so you can change components skins easily

Flash Pro CS5
- Text Framework integrated (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/)
- AS3 snippets for designers, creates simple interactive code as Keyboard / Mouse interaction
- Can save FLA or a uncompressed FLA format, that is a bunch of XML’s and assets inside a folder.
- The uncompressed file format is good to change the assets without opening the FLA file

Flash Builder
- You can easily create Flash Project and select a FLA file
- Better integration with back-end stuff, WebServices / AMF (CF, PHP, Java)
- Code generator for WebService / AMF
- Network monitor, to monitor webservices and AMF
- Easily create CMS, selecting the data origin, can be set to edit or only ready the data

Flash Distribution
- Monetization, using Adobe ID, sell Flash / AIR products
- Apps supports Ads
- Frameworks to make easier integrations with social network.

A long time I didn’t code anything in JS… and I just had an insight.
I don’t know if it’s new but at least it’s interesting for me how we can integrate Flash and HTML contents.
This is just a simple ugly test to drag something from Flash and drop on HTML.

The demo is in this link:http://www.hellokeita.in/xp/DragDrop/

So, here is the source for the Gesture Test I posted before.
http://labs.hellokeita.com/files/gesture/gesture.zip

As I said, it’s really simple, it’s not the best code but it gives you some ideas of how it’s made.

Inside the “tags” folder, I have three pngs for each shape (triangle, square and circle).
You draw the shape you want, I trim it, and compare to each png.
The comparisson is, get the drawn image, stretch it to the size of each png, and apply threshold. The BitmapData.threshold returns you an uint, the number of pixels that has been changed. With this number, divide it to the area of the png, and than, you choose the one that returns you tha smallest number.

and… that’s it. simple simple…

actually, it’s a technique used for some facial/object recognition softwares, but in a simplified way.

Well, I went to the Flash On The Beach for the first time this year. Was really cool and inspiring.

The first night, I had some inspiration, nothing to deal to any of the presentations I saw, but just something that I wanted to test. I couldn’t upload it because I didn’t have internet at the hotel, and at the venue the firewall was blocking me to connect to my FTP.

So, what was my experiment this time?
Gesture!
I think it’s working quite nice for a code I took less than an hour to write. It was much easier than I thought.

Just click and try to draw a Triangle, Circle or Square.

The source… well, I’m preparing for my LFPUG presentation so, I’ll try to explain about it there, and than release some kind of source.

There is a post from my friend Li http://www.lidev.com.ar/?p=237 where he is using more accurate algorithm to change the pitch. There’s not much loss on quality and no clips.